04 Six Feet Under · Shhh

115 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

115

LENGTH

3:04

DIFFICULTY

70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-31, hi-hat through bars 32-59, snare through bars 60-63, silence through bars 64-67 and snare through bars 68-77, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 40-42, and 9 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    32               33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-o-g-|
SD |-g-g-g-gxg-g-g-g|-g-g-g-gxg-g-g-g|
BD |x-------------x-|x--x--x-------x-|

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22 and 22 more.

It cuts the song into 34 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, AB -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
4. Bars 1-32 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part U and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Bars 56-88 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.